The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-27
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manliness to express them, we wish it
a long life Of prosperity and usefulness
The Dairy Of the Mississippi E1gri-
cultural College, and which ismanaged by
the young men who >affe5etudents shipped
during the month Of July 9,256 pounds Of
butter and 800 pounds OF, cream; n -ex-
cess of 20 per cent, oyer the same month
of last year. .
Charles Dickens, jr., has, arrived at
New York and will remain in the United
States for some time, and viii give read
ings from his fathers great works. 1t
will be a great pleasure to the Americans
to hear him, even if he is not so good as
Mr.. R. H. Smith, of Scotland Neck,
showed us a specimen of peanuts, Of which
n Of his neighbors has 100 acres planted
this year. I It is estimated that the yield
will be from 40 to 60 bushels per acre.
At 90 cents per bushel, it will go ahead of
cotton on ordinary land. <nN :
N~
THE plan of the architect for our
Agricultural College was examined by
the Board of Trustees\ at an informal
meeting held last Friday, and we learn
the Board was much pleased with it. The
Board will hold a regular meeting O
when the whole matter will be consid-
cred.
Mr.. Perry Taylor, of Greene county
was run over by a train near the depot
on last Wednesday evening and horribly
mangled. He was taken to the hospital
and most tenderly cared for, but died on
Thursday morning. His family and
friends have the deep and sincere SYM
pathy Of thousands of our people.
thu PR%oGREssIvE FARMER is the Off
'cial organ of the Farmers Alliance and
of the North Carolina Farmers State AS
ISOLATION, and it asks the members to use
it's columns and use them freely. Give
US items of interest in brief form. We
want a correspondent in every county
and neighborhood. in the State. We
want the paper to be to the members a.
weekly letter from everywhere. Write
us and give us the news.
"A terrible disaster occurred on the
Piedmont Airline. Road on the morning
of the 10th, 10 miles north Of G~reenville,
S. G. A heavy freight train running 80
miles an hour crashed into a passenger
train of seven cars loaded with visitors re-
turning from the Atlanta Exposition.
Engineer Wall and Mrs. Mcdowell, of
Asheville, were instantly killed, and
others fatally injured. Quite a number
of North Carolinians were on board.
The 7oi7er, published at Union City,
Tenn, the official organ of the Agricul-
tural Wheels of Tennessee and Kentucky,
comes to US this week crowded with
solid matter for the Wheel and other
farmers organizations. We were pleased
to meet with Bro. J. H. Mcdowell, one
of it's genial and talented editors at the
National Alliance. Henceforth the ZoiZer |
and its readers in those two great States
will give the Alliance their substantial
allies in any good
cause. We gladly place it on/our ex-
list.
We have received from Latham, Alex
ander & Co., 16 Wall St., N. Y, a copy
of their cotton book for the year, cotton
movements and fluctuations l8S6-97,
annual edition. It contains
their annual letter, reviewing the business
of the past cotton year and discussing the
prospects of the new crop and the bust
ness outlook for the coming year. 1t
also contains two interesting and valuable
on cotton and cotton prospects
written by Thomas Ellison, of Liverpool
specially for this book. 1t has the usual
carefully prepared tables, showing the
Auctuations,of cotton contracts and cotton
in this country and Europe, and the re-
exports and general movement of
cotton for several years past. Also much
other information bearing on cotton, the
whole forming the most complete, con-
else and practical cotton reference book
published.
MEETING OF ALLIANCE SECRETARIEs.-
G. Crowder, Secretary of Wake